Daniel Blaine Marchant Postdoctoral Researcher, Walbot Lab Stanford University, Stanford, CA [email protected]

EDUCATION University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 2018 Ph.D., Department of Biology Dissertation: Elucidating monilophyte genomics: how polyploidy, transposable elements, and the alternation of independent generations drive fern evolution Advisors: Drs. Doug and Pam Soltis University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington 2011 B.Sc. with Honors, Biology Senior Thesis: Reproductive limitations of oblongifolia () in the south Puget Sound region Advisor: Dr. Betsy Kirkpatrick

TEACHING EXPERIENCE Botany Conference, Rochester, Minnesota Workshop Co-organizer, “Using digitized herbarium data in research: 2018 applications for ecology, phylogenetics, and biogeography” University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Teaching Assistant, Botany 2710: 2017 Teaching Assistant, Botany 6935: Phylogenomics 2016 Integrated Digitized Biocollections, Gainesville, Florida Research Assistant, Production of ecological niche modeling 2017 – 2018 webinar and video tutorials University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado Workshop Organizer, “Using digitized collections-based data in 2016 research: a free hands-on, crash course in ecological niche modeling" Botany Conference, Savannah, Georgia Workshop Co-organizer, “Using digitized herbarium data in research: a 2016 crash course” Botany Conference, Edmonton, Alberta Workshop Co-organizer, “Ecological niche modeling: a crash course” 2015 Botany Conference, Boise, Idaho Workshop Co-organizer, “Georeferencing natural history collections” 2014 CIEE: Sustainability and the Environment, Monteverde, Costa Rica Teaching Assistant, Tropical Conservation Biology 2012 – 2013 University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington Teaching Assistant, Biology 112: Evolution and Diversity 2010

ADDITIONAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Integrated Digitized Biocollections, Gainesville, Florida Applications of ecological niche modeling to digitized museum 2013 – 2018 specimen records Khinganski Nature Reserve, Amur Oblast, Russia Large mammal population monitoring Summer 2013 Stanford University, Stanford, California Hypoxia triggers meiotic fate acquisitions in maize 2011 – 2012 CIEE: Tropical Ecology and Conservation, Monteverde, Costa Rica Size-related niche-partitioning of epiphytic orchids in the Fall 2009 cloud forest canopies of Monteverde, Costa Rica University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington Effects of polyploidy on the fitness of different ecotypes 2008 – 2009 of Arabidopsis thaliana

PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS 1. Zhao C, Wang Y, Chan KX, Marchant DB, Franks PJ, Randall D, Tee EE, Chen G, Ramesh S, Phua SY, Zhang B, Hills A, Dai F, Xue D, Gilliham M, Tyerman S, Nevo E, Wu F, Zhang G, Wong GKS, Leebens-Mack JH, Melkonian M, Blatt MR, Soltis PS, Soltis DE, Pogson BJ, Chen ZH. In revision. Evolution of chloroplast retrograde signaling facilitates green plant adaptation to land. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2. Gaynor ML*, Marchant DB, Soltis DE, Soltis PS. 2018. Climatic niche comparison among ploidal levels in the classic autopolyploid system, Galax urceolata (Diapensiaceae). American Journal of Botany. * undergraduate researcher mentored by DBM 3. Cai S, Chen G, Wang Y, Huang Y, Marchant DB, Wang Y, Yang Q, Dai F, Hills A, Franks PJ, Nevo E, Soltis DE, Soltis PS, Sessa EB, Wolf PG, Xue D, Zhang G, Pogson BJ, Blatt MR, Chen ZH. 2017. Evolutionary conservation of ABA signaling for stomatal closure in ferns. Plant Physiology pp.01848.2016. 4. Marchant DB, Soltis DE, Soltis PS. 2016. Genome evolution in . Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. 5. Marchant DB, Soltis DE, Soltis PS. 2016. Patterns of abiotic niche shifts in polyploids relative to their progenitors. New Phytologist 212: 708-718. 6. Soltis DE, Visger CJ, Marchant DB, Soltis PS. 2016. Polyploidy: Paths and pitfalls to a paradigm. American Journal of Botany 103:1146-1166. 7. Solhaug E, Ihinger J, Jost M, Gamboa V, Marchant B, Bradford D, Doerge RW, Tyagi A, Replogle A, Madlung A. 2016. Environmental regulation of heterosis in the allopolyploid Arabidopsis suecica. Plant Physiology 170: 2251-2263. 8. Soltis PS, Marchant DB, Van de Peer Y, Soltis DE. 2015. Polyploidy and genome evolution in plants. Current Opinion in Genetics and Development 35: 119-125. 9. Wolf PG, Sessa EB, Marchant DB, Li FW, Rothfels CJ, Sigel EM, Gitzendanner MA, Visger CJ, Banks JA, Soltis DE, Soltis PS, Pryer KM, Der JP. 2015. An exploration into fern genome space. Genome Biology and Evolution. 7: 2533-2544. 10. Nelson G, Sweeney P, Wallace LE, Rabeler RK, Allard D, Brown H, Carter JR, Denslow MW, Ellwood ER, Germain-Aubrey CC, Gilbert E, Gillespie E, Goertzen LR, Legler B, Marchant DB, Marsico TD, Morris AB, Murrell Z, Nazaire M, Neefus C, Oberreiter S, Paul D, Ruhfel BR, Sasek T, Shaw J, Soltis PS, Watson K, Weeks A, Mast AR. 2015. Digitization workflows for flat sheets and packets of plants, algae, and fungi. Applications in Plant Sciences. 3.9. 11. Soltis PS, Liu X, Marchant DB, Visger C, Soltis DE. 2014. Polyploidy and Novelty: Gottlieb's Legacy Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 369. 12. Sessa EB, Banks JA, Barker MS, Der JP, Duffy AM, Graham SW, Hasebe M, Langdale J, Li FW, Marchant DB, Pryer KM, Rothfels CJ, Roux SJ, Salmi ML, Sigel EM, Soltis DE, Soltis PS, Stevenson DW, Wolf PG. 2014. Between two fern genomes. GigaScience 3:15. 13. Cho A, Johnson SA, Schuman C, Adler J, Gonzalez O, Graves SJ, Huebner J, Marchant DB, Rafi S, Skinner I, Bruna E. 2014. Women are underrepresented on the editorial boards of journals in environmental biology and natural resource management. PeerJ 2:e542.

NON-PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS 14. Marchant DB, Stein AC, Herman T. 2015. Natural History Notes: callidryas and reproductive behavior. Herpetological Review 46(2).

PRESENTATIONS Botany Conference, Rochester, Minnesota “Incorporating a fern genome into land plant evolutionary genomics”± 2018 Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida Dissertation Seminar: “Elucidating monilophyte genomics: how 2018 transposable elements, and the alternation of independent generations drive fern evolution”± International Plant and Genome Conference, San Diego, California Invited Presentation: “Unfurling monilophyte genomics: how polyploidy, 2018 transposable elements, and the alternation of independent generations drive fern evolution”± International Botanical Congress, Shenzhen, China “Unfurling monilophyte genomics: how polyploidy, transposable 2017 elements, and the alternation of independent generations drive fern evolution”± University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado Invited Seminar: "Big data, phylogeny, and plant diversity" 2016 co-presented with PS Soltis Botany Conference, Savannah, Georgia Invited Presentation: "Gene evolution and specificity underlying the 2016 alternation of generations in Ceratopteris richardii"± "Patterns of abiotic niche shifts in polyploids relative to their 2016 progenitors"± International Conference on Polyploidy, Hybridization, and , Rovinj, Croatia “How polyploidy, transposable elements, and life history traits shape 2016 fern genome evolution” ± International Plant and Animal Genome Conference, San Diego, California Invited Presentation: "Explorations into the C-Fern genome"± 2016 Next Generation Pteridology Botanical Symposium Conference, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C. Invited Speaker: “Delving into the C-Fern genome” ± 2015 Botany Conference, Edmonton, Alberta “Transcriptomic and genomic investigations of the homosporous 2015 fern, Ceratopteris richardii” ± Florida Genetics Symposium, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida “Delving into the C-Fern genome and euphyllophyte evolution”* 2014 Botany Conference, Boise, Idaho “Delving into the C-Fern genome and euphyllophyte evolution”* 2014 1KP Sporophyte-Gametophyte Transcriptome Meeting, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida “Delving into the C-Fern genome and euphyllophyte evolution” ± 2014 * denotes poster presentation; ± denotes formal oral presentation

OUTREACH Preparing Leaders and Nurturing Tomorrow’s Scientists (PLANTS) Mentor http://botany.org/awards_grants/detail/PLANTS.php PlantingScience Mentor and Liaison http://www.plantingscience.org/ Center for Precollegiate Education and Training Summer Science Quest https://www.cpet.ufl.edu/students/sciquest/ Center for Precollegiate Education and Training Summer Science Institute: Advanced Topics in Evolution http://www.cpet.ufl.edu/teachers/ssi/evolution/ Data Carpentry Genomics & Assessment Hackathon, Cold Spring Harbor, New York http://www.datacarpentry.org/ “Broadening careers and graduate study in the biological sciences” workshop, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida https://www.idigbio.org/content/broadening-minority-participation-biological- sciences-workshop-focused-careers-and-graduate Reviewer for Nature, PLOS ONE, New Phytologist, American Journal of Botany, Molecular Ecology, Molecular Biology and Evolution

AWARDS AND LEADERSHIP Botanical Society of America Travel Grant ($2,400) CLAS Travel Grant ($300) Biology Department Travel Award ($150) Mildreth Mason Griffith Botany Grant ($1,000) NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) Fellowship ($10,000) University of Florida Genetics Institute SEED Award ($15,000) Lockhart Fellowship Endowment ($500) Graduate Student Council Travel Grant ($350) Botanical Society of America Graduate Student Research Award ($500) Honorable Mention of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program University of Florida Biology Graduate Student Association Officer Executive Board of Phi Sigma Biological Honors Society